Starter quiz
- What features should we include in the second part of our opening of 'Macbeth'?
- a detailed description of the setting
- a description of the witches ✓
- the dialogue between the witches ✓
- a description of Lady Macbeth
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- We want our description of the witches to make them sound ...
- hideous. ✓
- friendly.
- devious. ✓
- minuscule.
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- Match the types of fronted adverbial to the examples given.
- fronted adverbial of place⇔Beneath the sky, ✓
- fronted adverbial of manner⇔With a devious grin, ✓
- fronted adverbial of time⇔Seconds later, ✓
- Which type of clause starts the following sentence? 'Huddling together, the three witches spoke in hushed voices.'
- adverbial clause
- relative clause
- non-finite clause ✓
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- Is the speech in the following sentence 'speech first' or 'speech second'? 'Lifting her arms, the sorcerer wailed, "Until we meet again!"'
- 'speech second' ✓
- What piece of punctuation is missing in the following 'speech second' sentence? 'As they gathered together, the tallest of the hags muttered quietly, "Come closer sisters"'
- a comma after the reporting clause
- inverted commas around the direct speech
- a full stop at the end of the direct speech ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which of these is a fronted adverbial of time?
- All around,
- Sweating profusely,
- All of a sudden, ✓
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- Which of the following are complex sentences?
- The three hideous figures, who gathered together, had emaciated bodies. ✓
- The three hideous figures had emaciated bodies.
- The three hideous figures had emaciated faces, dripping with sweat. ✓
- The three figures were hideous and they were meeting on a heath.
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- What features can be seen in the following sentence? 'As their tattered cloaks, which hung off their skeletal bodies, billowed in the wild wind, they cackled elatedly.'
- adverbial clause ✓
- non-finite clause
- relative clause ✓
- direct speech
- fronted adverbial of place
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- Which of the following is a 'speech first' sentence?
- “Soon, but not yet,” the wicked hag replied. ✓
- The wicked hag replied, “Soon, but not yet.”
- The wicked witch scanned the land before replying.
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- What is missing in the following sentence? '“When shall we next meet him on the heath?”'
- a reporting clause ✓
- inverted commas
- a question mark
- direct speech
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- Which sentence uses the apostrophe correctly?
- The three figure's capes billowed in the wind.
- The three figures' capes billowed in the wind. ✓
- The three figures cape's billowed in the wind.
- The three figures capes' billowed in the wind.
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Worksheet
Presentation
Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Writing is most successful when it is planned.
- A narrative opening should engage the reader and describe the setting and any characters who are present.
- This narrative opening will be written in the third person.
- Dialogue can be used to convey character and advance the action.
- Variation in vocabulary and sentence structure engages the reader and improves text cohesion.
Common misconception
Pupils might be confused by the crossover between a fronted adverbial of manner or time and a non-finite or adverbial clause, for example, 'Hunching over,...' or 'As soon as they had spoken, ...'.
Whenever a fronted adverbial of manner is also an adverbial or non-finite clause, make this explicit. For example, in slide 19, you could say 'Leaning towards her sisters,' is a fronted adverbial of manner, but it is also a non-finite clause.
Keywords
Apostrophe for possession - a punctuation mark used to show if a noun belongs to another noun
Fronted adverbial - a sentence starter followed by a comma
Inverted commas - a pair of punctuation marks that signal direct speech to the reader
Reporting clause - a clause that tells the reader who said the speech sentence and how